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LOS ANGELES, Dec 27 (Reuters) - R&B singer and actress Brandy Norwood is engaged to music executive Ryan Press, a spokeswoman for the singer said on Thursday. This will be the first marriage for the singer, who goes by the moniker Brandy. Press is an executive with music publisher Warner/Chappell Music. A date for the wedding has not been announced publicly. Norwood, 33, has a 10-year-old daughter with her former boyfriend, music producer Robert Smith. Norwood has starred in numerous television and films since the 1990s and is best known as the lead character in the popular television series "Moesha" from 1996-2001 on the now-defunct channel UPN. She also scored a hit song in 1998 with "The Boy is Mine," a collaboration with the singer Monica, which garnered the pair a Grammy award.

Norman Luboff, 70, a choral director, composer and arranger, was world famous for his Norman Luboff Choir, its tours, recordings and movie scores. The choir, noted for its versatility, precision and craftsmanship, has made more than 75 records and will be going on tour for its 25th season this Christmas. Its repertoire ranges from Renaissance music and Bach to spirituals, gospel music, folk and pop songs. A resident of Bynum, N.C., Mr. Luboff died Tuesday at home. At Mr. Luboff's request there will be no services.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Music publisher Round Hill Music is expected to announce a deal to acquire the rights to a catalog of 150 songs, including hits by Katy Perry, Flo Rida, Bruno Mars and Cee Lo Green from Arthouse Entertainment LLC, a person close to the situation said. This source said a deal could be announced as soon as Wednesday morning, but declined to comment on its terms. Late last year, Round Hill purchased the rights to a catalog of music containing six songs written and recorded by the Beatles including "She Loves You," "I Saw Her Standing There," and "I Wanna Be Your Man. " Arthouse Entertainment was founded by record producer and former "American Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi and music publisher Stephen Finfer.

MISSION: Disarm a disability MOMENT OF TRUTH: As a kid on Chicago's South Side, Duncan struggled with reading. A teacher suspected Duncan was dyslexic, but his parents told him he simply wasn't trying hard enough. So he tried harder and settled for mediocre grades. But when he discovered the same problems in trying to read music-the black notes on a staff would jumble just like the text on a page-he was devastated. BACKSTORY: He'd had several music teachers who figured he wasn't interested, when in truth Duncan wanted desperately to learn.

When voices ring out in song at Roman Catholic churches across the country, many of those making music are relying on more than a wing and a prayer to remember the lyrics. They're singing from hardcover hymnals published by GIA Publications, a Chicago-based company that provides the music for sacred gatherings. The output from GIA's printing plant and warehouse near Midway Airport includes choral and instrumental music, hymnals that feature contemporary and traditional church music, texts for teaching music at the college level, compact discs and cassettes.

Well, you might have guessed that "Happy Birthday to You" is one of the three most popular songs in the English language-right up there with "Auld Lang Syne" and "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow," according to the folks at the Guinness Book of World Records-or whoever counts for them. After all, everyone has one a year, a birthday, that is, unless they`re among the misbegotten who were born on Feb. 29 and get serenaded only on Leap Years. But this is not about Leap Years. Or, come to think of it, about the admirable tolerance for pain required of those assigned to listen to and click off all those renditions of the top three tunes.

Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs. Matt Damon tackles "fracking" issue in the "Promised Land" LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The hot-button topic of "fracking" has finally made its way to Hollywood in the new movie "Promised Land," out in U.S. theaters on Friday, with actors Matt Damon and John Krasinski teaming up to further the debate on the energy drilling technique. The film explores the social impact of hydraulic fracturing drilling technique, or "fracking," which has sparked nation-wide environmental and political battles over its impact on drinking water, U.S. energy use, seismic activity and other areas.

NASHVILLE (Reuters) - "Cowboy" Jack Clement, who inspired pioneering rock'n'rollers and classic country musicians, sometimes while prancing around the music studio in his bathrobe and playing the ukulele, died on Thursday at his home in Nashville. He was 82. Clement died after a long bout with liver cancer, just months before he was to have been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, which confirmed his death. Despite his nickname, which was a holdover from an old radio skit rather than anything to do with horses and six-shooters, Clement actually favored Hawaiian print shirts and was as far removed as possible from actually being a cowboy.